Friday's Sound Off

Fantastic performance of patriotic music by the Boyertown Alumni Band at Sunnybrook on Sunday. Sorry if you missed it. Great way to start and continue our American spirit from Memorial Day through July 4. Pottstown Mayor Sharon Thomas made some beautiful remarks that were very heartwarming and timely. Also the recent junior high concert displayed where these wonderful musicians got their start. Thank you Mr. Kerchetsky.

KITTY AND JIM

The vulnerability that honesty requires isn’t something that everybody can handle. Lying allows people to be comfortable.

FIGHT WHEN YOU’RE RIGHT

To those volunteers past and present who risk their lives and gave their time for Keystone Steam Fire Company Station 16 I say thank you. Through so-called progress the oldest fire company in Boyertown is now closed. I feel we are less safe now than we were just last week. Rest in peace Station 16. You served us well.

ROBERT J. COX

I am sure almost everyone agrees the IRS destroyed the Lois Lerner emails even though they always back up all records. Now what could possibly be so damaging that they’d risk such criticism from we the people. Nah, you don’t think the IRS would cover up because of where the trail might lead to?

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TRUTH BE TOLD

Radio station KYW, 1060 AM on the dial, always claims they give the lottery numbers at 27 minutes after every hour. For the past week or so they did not give them at all. What is their problem?

Why do we have to be bilingual? If somebody comes over to our country, they should learn our language. Why should we have to bend over and learn theirs too. If I went to France, Germany or Poland, I would have to learn their language. I don’t want to be bilingual. I want to keep speaking English because I was born in the U.S. and I am an English speaking person. To the people coming over here, learn English. It’s our national language.

In Tuesday’s Mercury I see that the judge ruled for the Phoenixville School District to get an additional 50 acres, eminent domain. I feel that’s wrong that they took somebody’s land off of them for nothing but swamp land. I think that’s terrible and Phoenixville ought to be ashamed of themselves taking somebody’s land.

Yeah for the East End. I see we have a female on the mail route now. Maybe she can straighten our deliveries out. It seemed like those three or four guys couldn’t do it. Good luck. Hope you get things straightened out down here. It’d be nice to know who our mailman is once in awhile. And by the way Todd Dawson, thank you for the excellent job in the cemetery. Excellent work you guys, very nice.

Our elected representatives in Harrisburg do not need a pension. They are elected, they should serve the people of the state of Pennsylvania. Since when do they deserve a pension especially one that gives them money for each year in office? This is a job of respect. To solve the pension problem in Pennsylvania, we eliminate the pension plan for those elected officials and make them pay back all the money that was given to them as pension.

One million dollars to help the kids walk to school. We need jobs, the roads fixed, the bridges fixed and reopened, and we’re spending a million dollars for kids to walk to school when they don’t want to walk. Pottstown Health and Wellness Foundation $500,000. That’s Pottstown hospital money that was given to the Foundation which is for people in Pottstown. We need to start going to their meetings because they’re spending money foolishly on this.

BIG ED

I can’t believe that the school board in Phoenixville actually wasted money to go after eminent domain to get Meadowbrook Golf Club. You’re going to ruin all the open land out there, all the trees giving us oxygen, all the green and the nice breezes and you’re going to put up a school building. Just leave the land alone. You’re knocking a lot of people out that have a place to play golf and enjoy recreation with their friends.

Limerick’s crown jewel, Mandarach Park, the road going through it in the beginning had brick crosswalks. Not anymore. Ripping them up and just slapping some asphalt down. Oh well.

To all pet owners, please remember on the 4th of July to keep all your pets inside. So many of them are frightened by the fireworks and they often run off. Please avoid this. Also, please don’t leave them in your hot cars this summer, and when they are outside, please make sure they have plenty of water and shelter out of the hot sun. Please do this because they can’t speak for themselves.